Hi SGT,
> > You can use the zero-width space character \& to stop `.' being at
> > the start of a line, e.g.
> >
> > \&.UR foo:///bar
> > \&.UE
>
> hello Ralph, do you mean this?
>
> 2014-2015::T{
> It is neither this nor that while it's both this and that
> T}:
> \&.UR http://example.com
> \&.UE,
Probably not, as you've apparently a multi-line field contining .UR that
isn't in T{...T}.
> that doesn't work. this one thought comes closer:
>
> 2014-2015::T{
> It is neither this nor that while it's both this and that
> T}:\&
> .UR http://example.com
> \&.UE,
>
> with the caveat that a newline is introduced and i can get rid of it.
> that's the newline after first '\&' and without it .UR is not passed
> to troff.
Here's three lines of output from fgrep after I indicate end of file to
tbl with Ctrl-D, shown as ^D.
$ tbl | fgrep .UR
.TS
tab(/);
l l.
foo/bar
.UR foo:///bar
.UE
\&.UR/as text
.TE
^D
.nr 3w0 \n[3w0]>?\w\[tbl]\&.UR\[tbl]
.UR foo:///bar
\&\h'|\n[3cl0]u'\&.UR\h'|\n[3cl1]u'as text
$
That shows the `\&.UR/as text' is treated as two columns of plain text
whereas `.UR foo:///bar' has been passed through unaltered for troff to
see.
I'm still not clear what you are trying to achieve. Do you wish `.UR'
to appear in the table as text? If so, use \&. Or do you want a URL to
appear in the table, using .UR?
Cheers, Ralph.
